Re: [Nolug] 64-bit athlon?

I am taking assembly/computer arch. at LSU and I'd love to answer this
question BUT we are still stuck in the stone age when processors were
numbered and not named ...8086... I wish we could move on to some new, more
useful information.

>From: Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net>
>Reply-To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>To: nolug@joeykelly.net
>Subject: Re: [Nolug] 64-bit athlon?
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:13:34 -0500
>
>On Friday 22 October 2004 7:50 pm, E. Strade, B.D. spake:
> > 64 bit offers no performance increases for most applications. It simply
> > allows more memory addresses - nothing more. I would save you money
> > unless you need the extra address space.
> >
> > Brett
>
>Um, what? 32-bit-computing means that you are processing things in
>parallel,
>32 at a time, unless I'm terribly wrong about this. Yes, 32-bit leaves you
>with only 4GB of addressable RAM, but you've got 32 registers working in
>parallel. Moving to 64-bit is vastly faster than staying with 32-bit.
>
>Or I'm totally in the dark, and someone needs to hit me with a cluestick
>:-/
>
>--
>
>
>Joey Kelly
>< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
>http://joeykelly.net
>
>
>"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
> --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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